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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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